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... irresistibly. Our agony this year has been more prolonged than usual not only do lessees threaten us with flat racing till Christmas, but we have also to bear the weariness of a Turf scandal that the next session of the Central Criminal Court will scarcely ...

... most vividly upon the scientific observer. Wisely and appropriately, indeed, is the Cattle Show held a few weeks before Christmas. It is a fit preliminary to the commencement of the grand eating season of the year: and were it not for the approach of ...

... with De Quincey, and to rejoice that the Christmas Annuals and Numbers contain a plentiful supply of good seasonable ghosts and kindred horrors. Let Midsummer monopolise her/airies she cannot deprive Christmas of her ghosts. The season and the spirits ...

... CHRISTMAS M( w ENGLAND From a I GHTON -I 1-- nil ii- i ii i ■i.MiiimMCTri'inim--i' ■nm.liiilll.il CoMrirkt ...

... good wine preserved for us in the ten tiny volumes just published needs no bush, and cannot fail to be appreciated at this Christmas season. The late Mr. Pickering, as most of our readers know, produced a number of books small enough for the waistcoat pocket ...

... ceremonies of the celebration. The Americans pay but slight respect to Easter and Whitsuntide as a holiday season is unknown. Christmas, originally celebrated only among the Southern descendants of the Cavalier colony, has come to be, throughout the States ...

... notable deeds as set we shaU 'presently have to refer. In the year f^whfle serving on board H.M.S. Da-dalus, at Singapore, on Christmas Day, he M Imped into the sea, and saved the life of a man who had fallen over- Mallett) J urn pea ino.0'nboard H.M.S. Amazon ...

... writer ot farces and light dramas for the stage. Since then he has written three volume novels, stories, verses has edited Christmas annuals, and has lastly made his ap pearance as a public entertainer in the character of Falstaff. Long before this he had ...